Following a funeral service earlier that morning at St. Martin's Episcopal Church, the train is scheduled to depart at 1 p.m. from the Union Pacific Railroad Westfield Auto Facility, which will be closed to the public.

It will take an estimated two hours and 25 minutes for the train to reach College Station, across from Kyle Field. The locomotive, which can travel up to 70 mph, will move slower than usual track speed and will not make any stops along the way.

The procession falls in line with a long history of presidential funeral trains that transported the bodies of storied men to their places of burial, sometimes through multiple states, according to Union Pacific. They include Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses Grant, Franklin Roosevelt and Dwight Eisenhower.